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Looks similar to the Philips Lumify: https://www.lumify.philips.com/web/

For those who want more: https://github.com/drduh/macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide

And some implementations in:

- C: https://nakkaya.com/2010/08/24/a-micro-manual-for-lisp-imple...

- Python: https://github.com/mario-goulart/not-the-whole-truth

- Javascript: https://kybernetikos.github.io/Javathcript/

- Swift: https://www.uraimo.com/2017/02/05/building-a-lisp-from-scrat...

100% agree with your two, much needed, comments.

Losing muscle mass is something you should always try to avoid (tolerable calories deficit+right amount of proteins+exercise). Muscle mass is hard to gain and serves a purpose in everyday life.

The next step on the author's journey to a healthy lifestyle should be to focus on macros and on the kinds of food he eats too, since both have implications on his body composition and general health.

That has been true for a few years, sadly.

Low-fi and with some added lens flare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g6YxkSqL20

I guess this was used as an intro for a tv show.

I've never seen a company put out so many announcements for a feature that if you think about it, from the point of view of what it offers, it's really a minimal change.

From the same period, a radio interview where Ted Nelson tries to convince, unsuccessfully, a skeptical radio host that home computing has a future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVU62CQTXFI

It lists "Swish" as an italian company, is it?

Nice rant, can you name at least one of those mind-blowing apps that happens to be sold for real money?

Everyone in the last 40 years built and sold a multitude of destkop apps and they never stopped. Stop drinking the cool aid, and even if some bozo upvotes you on hackernews it does not mean that you are right (actually nowadays the opposite is more probable).

Author here, no, it doesn't support TCO and you'd have to resort to trampolining here too. In another post[1] I've talked about this and I agree it's definitely not an elegant workaround.

[1] https://www.uraimo.com/2016/05/05/recursive-tail-calls-and-t...

I'm more worried about people constantly believing that every new framework is a major advancement for programming and that it's not just something that could be learned in an afternoon (e.g. React). Or about people following the latest hyped trend without learning anything and without producing much other than more hype.

AI,ML and VR are all really interesting, but as we all know they are not completely new and will not likely account for the majority of the future jobs.

Fundamentals are what matter, most of these "new things" are just something that you can learn with relatively limited effort if needed. Classic programming skills, analytical skills or things like the ability to reason about concurrency issues never go obsolete.

> and so it did cause another round of "repair" to code that was inadvertently broken on a functional level.

As the Uncle says, if you have tests that's just a minor annoyance.

He recommends git blame to identify which files should be prioritized when improving the codebase, but git log and a bit of shell-fu can make remove the need for manual browsing.

For example, obtaining the list of the 10 most modified files is as easy as:

    git log --name-only --pretty=format: | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -n 10

This is only a simple example but something non much different could be used to get a better indication of actual activity, limit the search to specific timeframes or users, etc...

I still don't understand why at some point "coder" has become more popular than the simple "programmer".

zenkit.com

For those who missed it like me, Fabrice just released a RISC-V emulator, HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13210711

Better video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re6P7WP2N5w

Extremely unsafe, it's quite easy to spot moments where this video could have had a gruesome conclusion, but I'm glad too see that at least someone gave them those plastic masks to provide the illusion of safety to those who wear them. And health care in Cina, I'm guessing that's top notch.

> the API is currently handling around 300 million requests a month.

Are those number not enough to start charging for more than #k requests? Even a few bucks a year to use the service would be better than nothing.

> Like many myths about Java performance, the erroneous belief that declaring classes or methods as final results in better performance is widely held but rarely examined.

Yes, was about to point this out, one of the more resilient misconceptions about Java. I've lost count of how many times I had to explain this and remove a boatload of unnecessary "final".

> Required prior reading

I've not used python in years, I've read this post and the original one and still don't understand why python 3 is so terrible and is inevitably destined to fail.

I see just a few changes, nothing comparable to what happened for example with the Swift language.

A riddle? Did someone ever really think that this was a british dish and that no one in Italy could come up with a tomato+meat sauce?

Not so pure, see [1] and [2] about glyphosate contamination of some brands.

Not really a well researched article, the research linked below is well known in Europe and was discussed in every major news outlet six months ago.

Edit: If you disagree, reply, don't just downvote.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-beer-idUSKCN0VY222

[2] http://sustainablepulse.com/2016/02/25/german-beer-industry-...

Amazing app guys, essential for travellers.

A 10x developer that works for 10% the normal rate, maybe :)

> and it has two thunderbolt ports.

On the same side, not good.

Played a bit with it and it's not ready to replace My Maps at least for me.

I don't care much about recommendations since I plan my trips beforehand and use My Maps to save the places I want to visit. Having something that could propose multiple itineraries between a subset of those places would be nice (with multiple options related to the method used to move between places).

Trips seems more similar to a traditional guide than an app to assist travelers, you can't really build customized itineraries and even saving places is a bit cumbersome.

Let's just hope they don't kill My Maps now.

Yes, not really a problem in that case. But let's not forget that this release also contains nearly 50 other source breaking swift-evolution proposals (full changelog here: https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md).

But one of the things I like about how the language is begin developed is that everyone involved is aware that having the language in a constant state of flux is painful, and try to provide useful warning messages (or wizards if you use XCode) for those that will need to update their code to a newer release sooner or later.

> A lot of older programmers seem to think they have 20 years of experience, when they only have the same year of experience 20 times.

A lot of younger programmers seems to think they have 3 years of experience, when they only have the same month of experience 36 times.

Experience is made up by the experiences you had, if you have never worked in a proper environment or never actually tried to improve your craft, years doesn't matter much.

And the myth of "being up to date", it can mean different things for different people. Sadly sometimes it just means that you need to have played with the latest fad that will disappear in a few years. In that case i'd prefer someone that's not up to date but can learn something different and it's used to do things the proper way.